Once a week, samples are collected from 250 sites across the nation to monitor air pollution through the National Atmospheric Deposition Program. The samples are sent to the University of Illinois for ...
PULLMAN, Wash. – Traditional thought holds that a disease-causing organism has to penetrate a plant to initiate resistance. Now, two Washington State University scientists have established that a ...
The weather conditions of 2025 were perfect for a southern rust outbreak across the Midwest, resulting in many growers having to make late-season decisions on disease management. Southern rust is a ...
As recently as early November, only Louisiana was known to be harboring the deadly soybean rust spore pushed northward from South America in 2004 by Hurricane Ivan. In just a few weeks, a fungal ...